July 20, 2006
-- WMR
reported that the Israeli military was using poison gas on
villages in south Lebanon. According to a former U.S.
weapons expert who served in Iraq, the artillery shell in a
photo taken in Lebanon (below) is a chemical weapon delivery
device. It is being handled by an Israeli Defense Force
soldier and Hebrew lettering can be clearly seen on the
armored vehicle. Another chemical weapons shell of the same
type can be seen lying on the ground to the right. It is not
known what type of chemical is in the chemical canister,
however, gas dropped by the Israelis in villages in southern
Lebanon has resulted in severe vomiting among the civilian
population.
Media commentators have scoffed that Israel, with its
relatively unique history, would ever use chemical weapons
or poison gas in any war. It is precisely because of that
perception that they are using such weapons. The deniability
factor prevents the media from taking seriously the credible
reports of banned weapons being used by the
Israelis.

Israel using
chemical delivery weapons in Lebanon. Fuse and chemical
canister can be
clearly seen in photo of Israel Defense Force personnel in
Lebanon..
Drawing of chemical weapon is from the Organization for the
Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.

These
scenes are being repeated hundreds of times over as you
read this message and as the Zionist war criminals continue
their aggression
against the people of Lebanon and Palestine
in wanton defiance of all international
law.

Jewish
atrocities continue
...

November 8,
2006: massacre of women and children in Gaza
Strip concentration camp

Jewish Israeli soldier keeps eye
on any Palestinians still moving

While the world is turning its back
and closing its eyes

By Raida Hatoum*

I can hear the bombs as I write this: today, the 20th of
July, is Day 8 of the Israeli war on Lebanon.

The bombing continues today especially in all the south and
east of Lebanon. Today more massacres were conducted and
more civilians were killed. Tomorrow we will count our lost
ones from today and we will see more photos of murdered
children and families.

Today we
counted our lost ones from yesterday. We collected photos of
the remains of families, of women and children who were
killed. Yesterday was the worst, 70 civilians were killed -
most of them are still under the ruins of their houses
destroyed in the south and the Beqa'a regions.

On the television and radio people from the south and east
Lebanon who are beseiged in their villages are asking for
medicine, food, water, and are asking for mercy. They say
there are still people buried under their houses that Israel
bombed yesterday. They say there are still fires they cannot
put off as Israel is using phosphorus bombs that burns
everything. They say please give us one hour to allow us to
have medicine and food at least for the children and to bury
those who were killed.

They say there is a strong smell of death in their villages
because there are bodies of killed people under the ruins of
shelters and houses.
Reporters say they were able to hear voices screaming for
help, moaning from pain, dying under the ruins, and no one
was able to help because Israel is bombing any vehicle that
moves and the people are not able to move the ruins of the
houses to save the people who are buried underneeth.

Today doctors from the hospitals in the south are screaming
saying many of the dead bodies they received were not even
injured and didn't bleed, but they were burnt while the hair
is not burnt and a strange strong smell comes from the
bodies. These are evidence that Israel is using chemical
weapons.

Yesterday the speaker of the human rights committee in
United Nations, said that there is a "strong possibility
that Israel is conducting war crimes". Of course Israel is
conducting war crimes. This is a genocide. Would the UN and
the international comunity act now before it is too late to
force Israel to stop?

It is already one week of this and the UN gave Israel one
more week to finish its dirty work in Lebanon. One week of
this genocide and the result is more than half million
displaced Lebanese and 325 killed civilians and 1000 injured
civilians. Most of them are children.

The war is generating damages of one and a half billion
dollars every day so far. It would take 15 years to rebuild
what Israel destroyed in 7 days. But those who got killed
cannot be brought back to life.

Yesterday Israel conducted several massacres, one of them in
the village of Sreifah in the south by blowing up 10 houses
with the people inside, killing 27; all were members of 3
families.

Israel orders the people in the south to evacuate their
villages: when the people try to leave their villages Israel
targets them with Apache helicopters and kills them. Israel
did it again yesterday targeting 3 cars full of peole and
children who were trying to leave the village Aitaroun
killing 4 and injuring 7.

There will be no schools this 2006/07 schoolyear, as there
are tens of villages and towns that were completely
destroyed including schools, medical centers, shops,
factories and houses of its citizens. Tens of thousands from
among the half a million displaced people would have to stay
in the public schools and gardens for 6 more months this is
if the war were to stop today. Winter is coming, I wonder
how the displaced Lebanese would survive in the public
schools and gardens?

On Day 1 of the war the Israeli government said they would
turn Lebanon back in time by 20 years. And they did it. But
now they are murdering all of us. Lebanon is completely
destroyed, no more bridges, roads, factories, stations,
water, electricity, airports, seaports, they bombed medical
centers and schools and internet stations, they even bombed
the historical ruins of Bealbeck.
Today I had to go like hundreds of people to bring drinkable
water from the fountain which is something my grand grand
grandmother used to do in the 17th century. Then I went to
buy milk and cigarettes: the shelves in the 7 shops I
visited were almost empty.

The roads are cut and there is no way to provide goods from
one region to the other. I didn't complain, I thought about
the others who are trapped in their villages under attack
with nothing at all for 8 days now.

I tried to call friends, Wafa and Fadi in Sida, Raed in
Beirut, Sameera in Bealbeck, Sahban in Tyre and others, but
while standing in front of the public phone in the street
waiting for my turn, watching the tens of young women and
children waiting to use the phone, listening to the
conversations, the fear, the worries etc, I felt I couldn't
wait, I couldn't make the phone calls, I was so scared that
no one will answer at the other side of the phone, this
other side that is only an hour or an hour and a half away
now seems very distant, as if on another planet.

I went home feeling sad and helpless. Decided to occupy
myself with reorganizing the old newspapers I keep in my
room: I carry the first one and open it to find it is "Al
Safeer" newspaper from 1996 and on the first page pictures
of killed infants and children - it was the Israeli massacre
of Qana. This massacre happened when people from the
southern villages took refuge at a UN center in the village
of Qana and were murdered as Israel bombed the UN center.
Pain sweeps me and I crack down with the tears I tried very
bravely and hardly to stop for seven days.

The whole picture is so shockingly clear to me: we will
never live in peace and will never have a future as long as
Israel is protected, tolerated and allowed to kill children
and destroy houses and hospitals in Lebanon and
Palestine.

It is a genocide. Nothing less. Nothing else.

Today
on the television they showed Israeli children in north
Israel writing messages on Israeli bomb missiles that will
be fired - or have been already fired - at the Lebanese
villages. Those messages say: "from the children of Israel
to the children of Lebanon". Can any one explaine this...
What is this madness? Can someone at least tell the world
and Israel that those messages found their way to the flesh
and blood of the Lebanese children? We got the message.

More survivors and displaced families are coming to the
mountains today and they have even reached the northern
mountain. Now people are hosting those displaced families in
their own houses as all the public schools and universities
are full. Cars with megaphones are driving in the roads
asking people to donate matresses as there is a need for
11,000 matresses, in the mountain alone, and it is an
immediate need.

When I think about the displaced people I imagine that I
have to sleep wearing the same outfit I was wearing for a
week, in the same underwear, I imagine how it would feel to
be in a minivan on the road with tens of other people
squeezed running away to what might be a safer zone, fearing
that the Israeli missiles would hunt us at any second and
that we would make the news like the family whose photos I
sent you who were targeted after trying to escape with their
truck on the road. And like many others. I try to imagine if
I can stay with no shower for a week, with no medicine for a
week, with no food, no bathrooms, no water to drink, no
contact with other members of my family.
I stay at my room looking at each corner and think about
those who lost their houses, their belongings, those who
lost everything.

What does Israel want? - a land with no people in Palestine
and Lebanon? What does USA want? A Middle East empty but for
oil? Are they just displaying their weapons for buying and
selling in the market, is it an exhibition of madness? Condy
says "we won't ask Israel to stop firing because stopping it
won't solve the problem". Yes Condy, it won't solve the
problem. Dead Lebanese and dead Palestinians would solve the
problem, no? A genocide. And Blair also share this position
with Condy. Don't they know that ending the occupation is
what would solve the problem?

What future are Israel, USA, UK and Iran planning for the
region? More wars more killing more violence and hate. In
this, superpowers fight over domination; we the ordinary
people are the ones stuck in the middle, we are ones being
used in their wars and conflicts, we are the ones who pay
the price. In Palestine, Iraq and Lebanon, we deserve to
live in peace.

All the violence is caused by the occupation.

Yesterday Israel bombed Borj El Brajneh district in the
southern suburbs of Beirut with more than 23 tons of
bombs!!! yes, 23 tons of bombs, even the global media
confirmed it. The target was a mosque. They bombed it with
the pretext that there are tunnels under this mosque and
Nasrallah is hiding there!!!.

Till now 3 churches and 5 mosques were destroyed. I was
thinking about Wafa'a and her husband Ali, both Palestinian
refugees living in Borj El Brajneh camp. I just went to
their wedding party one week before this war started,
visited them at their new appartment in the refugee camp
three days before this war started. I am dead worried about
them. After Israel bombed the mobile/cellphone station it is
almost impossible to make a phone call.

Dear friends, Lebanon that some of you you have visited once
does not exist any more. Tell the world, keep carrying out
what you do, all you can do, make this genocide stop, there
is nothing left for Israel to destroy unless they want to
kill us in our homes, house after house, family after family
... just like what is happening in Gaza, just like what
happened in Sabra & Shatila massacre in 1982.

Yesterday the 19th July, we were no longer able to recognize
day from night; our days are just like our nights all full
of bombing, black smoke of fires (because Israel is bombing
gas stations and gas tanks). There's destruction of milk and
cheese factories, burning tissue, wood, and carton
factories, destruction of health care centers, destruction
of schools and shops, photos of burnt children, news about
families being targeted and killed in their shelters and
relief centers...

I fear this might lead to a bigger war or conflict. I feel
like every one lost their minds, even those who do know and
do understand.
I have friends in all parts of Lebanon and I am dead worried
about them.
I am worried about my friends in north Israel, too, in
Haifa, Nazareth and Safad.

I write to Salman and his wife Nada, they live in Karmel
mountain above Haifa, they tell me they are fine, yet their
daughter left to Italy to stay with her brother. They ask me
to be fine and not to crack down. Salman, who toured Italy
last year talking about the verbal history of the
Palestinians that he has collected for over 30 years, tells
me that a storm is in his heart and mind.

Aida, my friend in Haifa, a brave activist and a mother of 2
children whom I met in Cyprus at a conference and became
best friends since then writes to me saying she wishes to
sacrifice herself for me and all the Lebanese. She told me
that when people call her to see if she and her daughters
are fine after the Hezbollah Catyoshia rockets hit Haifa,
her daughters answer saying we are fine but what about the
children of Lebanon?

What an ironic world.
What good would come from Hezbollah bombing Haifa, Acker,
and Safad in north Israel? And what good would come from the
Israeli systematic destruction of Lebanon and Gaza and West
Bank and killing of civilians in Lebanon and in Gaza?
Nothing but more violence and madness.

Every day more civilians are being killed, more massacres.
Every day more children within few seconds are turned from
beautiful and innocent creatures full of life and laughter
into pieces of burnt flesh and meat.

We see their images on our televisions and newspapers, and I
wonder what future the surviving children can have with such
memories, why should children in Lebanon, Palestine and Iraq
have to endure such brutality.

Make Israel pay for the crimes it is conducting.

Make it stop its crimes, or else Israel will continue this.
I read today that the Zionist
religious
men in Israel said it is allowed for Israel to kill inoccent
women and children who are not Jewish - what difference is
there between this and what Bin Laden and Zarqawi and all
those criminals are saying and doing in Iraq. killing
innocent Shi'ites and Christians, Iraqis and foreigners?

The photos here are of two massacres Israel conducted
yeterday and the day before. One in Nabishiet village near
Bealbeck city in east Lebanon killing 7 members from one
family (4 of them are children) by bombing their four-floor
house and injuring 3. The other one occured in the south
when Israel again targeted a car that was trying to escape
to a safer place killing the family that was in it.

Also, there is a photo of the US embassador in Beirut
turning his back to the photos of destruction and the
murders which were displayed at a Government conference room
where they invited ambassadors to ask them to pressure
Israel to stop this war.

Thank you again for caring while the world is turning its
back and closing its eyes.
Yours Raida
___________

* Raida Hatoum was a founding member of the Lebanon
IndyMedia organization in Beirut; is a volunteer
active with the Palestinian Solidarity networks working at
the Shatila refugee camp and with the Najdeh
Association; member of the group which published the
Lebanese paper Al-Yasari (the
Leftist); and a committed Socialist.Cyprus IndyMedia editorial collective
________

WARNING: IDF LOAD ATOMIC MUNITION

Israeli soldiers load atomic handgrenades onto a military
vehicle as Israeli orthodox Jews blow horns, to show their
support for the troops, along the Israeli Lebanese border
Wednesday July 26, 2006.

Hezbollah fighters battled Wednesday to stop Israeli forces
from capturing the town of Bint Jbail in the heaviest
fighting of Israel's two-week offensive in Lebanon.

Arab TV stations and Hezbollah said up to 13 Israeli
soldiers had been killed, but Israel did not confirm. (AP
Photo/David Guttenfelder)

Atomic Demolition Munitions (ADM) are nuclear demolition
devices used primarily for obstacle creation or denial
operations. ADM can only be used when the authority to
employ nuclear weapons has been granted. In the AirLand
Battle, commanders should plan for, request release of, and
use nuclear weapons at the time when they will have the
greatest effect on the enemy. Special characteristics make
ADM most desirable on the battlefield. These characteristics
are discussed in the following paragraphs. The Special
Atomic Demolition Munition (SADM) is the ADM system
currently in use. The SADM can be carried by personnel, and
is a low yield weapon fired by a timer mechanism.

CAPABILITIES OF ADM
Atomic Demolition Munitions have a much higher destructive
power than conventional explosives. In order to achieve
similar effects, a massive amount of conventional explosive
would have to be used. The logistic and manpower
requirements are greatly reduced when ADM are used rather
than conventional explosive. There is no delivery error with
ADM. This is a significant advantage over any other type
delivery system when absolute accuracy is required such as a
bridge or tunnel. Fallout, induced radiation, and collateral
damage can be controlled or minimized by using ADM. A much
larger yield weapon would have to be used to compensate for
delivery error.

For example, consider the destruction of major highway
bridges. A subkiloton SADM detonated subsurface in the
center of the highway would create the desired obstacle.
Considering delivery error associated with artillery-,
aircraft-, and missile-delivered systems, and the inability
to detonate these delivered systems at the surface or
subsurface, yields in the 50-kiloton range would be required
to assure creation of the desired obstacle with any other
nuclear system. The advantages resulting from using the
lower yield ADM in tactical operations are significant.

ADM TARGETS
Tunnels
Most tunnels cannot be severely damaged or destroyed with
conventional explosives because of the vast quantity
required and the difficulty to concentrate the explosive
power of such a large volume at a single point. An ADM
placed inside most tunnels will severely damage them and
create an obstacle that could take several weeks to
breach.

Major highways
In order to effectively crater a major highway with
conventional explosives, a large amount of haul capacity,
personnel, demolitions, and--most important--time would be
required.

A low yield SADM detonated subsurface or on the surface
would produce an obstacle that the enemy could not breach
with assault bridging. Breaching would require extensive
foundation preparation and installation of a fixed bridge.
Even when not under fire, such construction could require
days to complete.

Bridges
Preparing a major highway bridge could require an engineer
battalion's entire haul capability and several company hours
when using conventional explosive demolitions. The same
bridge could be destroyed in a few minutes by an ADM firing
team with a low yield SADM.

ADM EMPLOYMENT
The primary purpose of ADM is to create obstacles. The
purpose of any obstacle or system of obstacles is to control
enemy movement. This control means to stop his movement,
slow his rate of advance, or change the direction of his
movement. Once the enemy has been stopped, he must decide
whether to breach or bypass the obstacle. He loses time
during this decision process and presents a good target to
friendly weapons. If he decides to breach the obstacle, he
loses more time because his rate of advance will be slowed.
Forces awaiting the completion of the breaching operation
will present vulnerable targets. If he decides to bypass the
obstacle, he loses time because of the less direct route to
his objective. When ADM or any other obstacles are emplaced,
friendly forces should consider the bypass routes available
and also create obstacles there or plan direct or indirect
fire.

In both offensive and defensive roles, the ADM acts as a
combat multiplier. ADM used to reinforce terrain will create
very significant obstacles in terms of cratering and tree
blowdown. When covered by direct or indirect fire and
reinforced with scatterable mines, the enemy must expend
considerable resources to overcome the obstacle and will
most likely choose to bypass it. The residual radioactive
contamination adds to the obstacle's effectiveness. The
overall effect is to cause local concentration of enemy
forces, thus creating better targets for conventional and
nuclear weapon systems.

ADM in the offense
One of the roles that ADM can play in the attack is to
provide protection to the flanks of the attacking formation,
particularly in cross compartmented terrain. The ADM can be
used to seal likely enemy counterattack avenues of approach.
Another role for ADM in the offense is to create obstacles
behind the enemy to prevent escape from the attacking
forces. Yet another is a close interdiction role to separate
enemy first and second echelon forces by destruction of key
highway and rail bridges in enemy territory. The ADM can
also be used in rear areas to disrupt main supply routes.
Special Operations Forces (SOF) augmentation will most
likely be required for ADM placed behind enemy lines.

ADM in the defense
The greatest utility of ADM is in defensive operations. The
effective creation of critical obstacles can enable a
relatively small force to hold off a large attacking force
until reinforcements arrive. In the defense, ADM is used to
create key obstacles, block dangerous avenues of approach,
and deny the enemy use of important installations and
facilities.

ADM in the offense
One of the roles that ADM can play in the attack is to
provide protection to the flanks of the attacking formation,
particularly in cross compartmented terrain. The ADM can be
used to seal likely enemy counterattack avenues of approach.
Another role for ADM in the offense is to create obstacles
behind the enemy to prevent escape from the attacking
forces. Yet another is a close interdiction role to separate
enemy first and second echelon forces by destruction of key
highway and rail bridges in enemy territory. The ADM can
also be used in rear areas to disrupt main supply routes.
Special Operations Forces (SOF) augmentation will most
likely be required for ADM placed behind enemy lines.